Chinese infantry fighting vehicles

plawolf

plawolf

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by78 said:
It's a EW vehicle. Also, what use does the PAP have for a counter-battery radar?
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By that same logic, what use does PAP have for EW vehicles? ;)

But we may be hair splitting a little since modern AESA radars are more than capable of performing both traditional radar and EW tasks. It could be tailored to one role more than the other, but the basic hardware would allow it to perform either or both roles with the right back-end processing and software installed.
 
plawolf

plawolf

Lieutenant General
by78 said:
I wonder what this variant is. Communications perhaps? If so, the radome differs considerably to the known communications variant.

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For some reason, this makes me think it’s a wide band all directional jammer for low end counter drone operations.

No need to get fancy with lasers or having to specifically point flat panel AESA panels at targets, just flip a switch and all commercial drones within a few miles loose command link to operators.

Might also be useful to blanket jam cell phones and light radios, which would be useful in urban environments and also for counter insurgency work to stop remote detonation of IEDs.
 
by78

by78

General
plawolf said:
By that same logic, what use does PAP have for EW vehicles? ;)

But we may be hair splitting a little since modern AESA radars are more than capable of performing both traditional radar and EW tasks. It could be tailored to one role more than the other, but the basic hardware would allow it to perform either or both roles with the right back-end processing and software installed.
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I don't see the PAP as having much need for a counter-battery radar because it's not likely to encounter domestic foes with artillery or mortar. On the other hand, EW capabilities are definitely needed.
 
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by78 said:
I don't see the PAP as having much need for a counter-battery radar because it's not likely to encounter domestic foes with artillery or mortar. On the other hand, EW capabilities are definitely needed.
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Absolutely. I’m not sure he considered crowd/riot control, anti-terrorism and VVIP protection.

You may need to jam cellphone, radio and or gps signals - or attempts aimed at you.

There is a constant cell and gps blackspot, with a fairly large radius, that travels with Putin for example.
 
plawolf

plawolf

Lieutenant General
by78 said:
I don't see the PAP as having much need for a counter-battery radar because it's not likely to encounter domestic foes with artillery or mortar. On the other hand, EW capabilities are definitely needed.
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But the PAP is not just for purely domestic urban policing operations. They are also responsible for boarder security and counter insurgency. With the likes of Afghanistan, India, Pakistan, Myanmar and Vietnam sharing land boarders with China, it is certainly not beyond the realm of possibility for foreign trained, equipped and based militants to venture across boarders with medium weapons like mortars that the PAP would then need to interdict and counter.

Counter battery radars may also have a secondary use in providing early warning against small commercial drones used for both recon and direct attack by more sophisticated hostiles.
 
by78

by78

General
plawolf said:
But the PAP is not just for purely domestic urban policing operations. They are also responsible for boarder security and counter insurgency. With the likes of Afghanistan, India, Pakistan, Myanmar and Vietnam sharing land boarders with China, it is certainly not beyond the realm of possibility for foreign trained, equipped and based militants to venture across boarders with medium weapons like mortars that the PAP would then need to interdict and counter.

Counter battery radars may also have a secondary use in providing early warning against small commercial drones used for both recon and direct attack by more sophisticated hostiles.
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You are stretching it a bit. PAP is used for patrolling peaceful borders and counter-terrorism operations, among other things. It is not used to guard the borders with Afghanistan or India. The Army does that.

Also, that vehicle in question is an EW variant, I know that because the video from which the images were taken clearly says it's an EW variant. So it's a moot point to argue that it could be a counter-battery radar or the PAP could conceivably field counter-battery radars and such. Could the PAP theoretically field counter-battery radars, or nuclear ballistic missiles, or a space-based SIGINT network, or be involved in smuggling lost Aztec gold? Sure, anything is possible.
 
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